ANU JUNNONEN & TUUR FLORIZOONE

White Paper Album Release

ANU JUNNONEN & TUUR FLORIZOONE

White Paper Album Release

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White Paper by Anu Junnonen & Tuur Florizoone brings together 25 years of friendship and musical collaboration in twelve intimate songs. Blending jazz, world, pop and contemporary chamber music, the album moves between fragility and connection, shaped by voice and accordion.

Written by Anu Junnonen & Tuur Florizoone, White Paper invites the listener into a world of nuance, closeness and quiet intensity.

More than a collection of songs, it is a shared journey.

Ladies and gentlemen, here’s a song that comes from far away and goes deep. A song about letting go and starting afresh with great strength. ‘Deep Cut’ is one of our most intense live tracks, where we as a duo are almost literally stretched too thin: vocals, bass accordion, percussion, piano… and a touch of poetry as a chorus to top it all off.

Before the whole album is released next week, you now have the chance to discover this song.

Credits:

Anu Junnonen – voice / Tuur Florizoone – bass accordion – piano / Etienne Plumer – recording & percussion / Dries Van Ende – mixing / Uwe Teichert – mastering / Alexander Popelier – cover photo / Pieter Willems – artwork / Pjotr Laura Matikainen – animated video

Time for a HIT…
With the single ‘Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime’, we’re bringing you the second and the last cover song of our album ‘White Paper’.
This is our version of the world famous song written by James Warren for the Korgis in 1980.
Here’s to bittersweetness, to loneliness, to shifting perspective, to navigating heartbreak …
You can listen to it on you favourite music platform or take a look at the animated video made by Laura Matikainen.

Credits:
Anu Junnonen – voice
Tuur Florizoone – accordion
Etienne Plumer – recording
Dries Van Ende – mixing
Uwe Teichert – mastering
Photography – Alexander Popelier
Art-work album & single cover – Pjotr
Laura Matikainen – animated video

Vihma is an original song of Värttinä, the world famous Finnish folk music band. It is one of the two covers on the debut album White Paper by Anu Junnonen and Tuur Florizoone. This songs has been travelling with us for many years and when performed live it takes on different forms. We’re happy to have finally recorded our own version of this amazing song of Värttinä.

Vihma literally means ‘sleet’ that translates to wet snow. Imagine yourself walking through a wintry Nordic landscape, trying to reach home where a warm fireplace awaits. But the snow sticks to your feet, the wind is blowing harder, the temperature is dropping … Will you make it home? Have a good trip.

‘Vihma’ was originally written by Kari & Sirpa Reiman ‘The full album is released on ‘Aventura Musica’.

Credits: Anu Junnonen – stem / Tuur Florizoone – accordion & percussions / Etienne Plumer – recording / Dries Van Ende – mixing / Uwe Teichert – mastering / Laura Matikainen – animated video

‘Earth People’ is the opening song of the debut Album ‘White Paper’ by Anu Junnonen (Finland) & Tuur Florizoone (Belgium) and is launched as the first single of the Duo.
Laura Matikainen made the animation movie.

The music was recorded in the south of France, in a villa overlooking the hills of the Var and the surrounding bushes, with the swimming pool to the right. Everything a regular music studio lacks…
We played on a Blütner grand piano with a plasticine strip on the middle register, which allowed us to get three different sounds from the piano: High and low open strings/muted mid register. The Cello arrangement, played by the wonderful Jörg Brinkmann was recorded in Brussels.

“Earth People” is written by Anu Junnonen (lyrics) and Tuur Florizoone (music). It is released on Tuur music label ‘Aventura Musica’.

Recording: Etienne Plumer / Mixing: Dries Vanende / Mastering: Uwe Teistert